Font Size
Isaiah 63:17
New Living Translation
Isaiah 63:17
New Living Translation
17 Lord, why have you allowed us to turn from your path?
Why have you given us stubborn hearts so we no longer fear you?
Return and help us, for we are your servants,
the tribes that are your special possession.
Isaiah 6:10
New Living Translation
Isaiah 6:10
New Living Translation
10 Harden the hearts of these people.
Plug their ears and shut their eyes.
That way, they will not see with their eyes,
nor hear with their ears,
nor understand with their hearts
and turn to me for healing.”[a]
Footnotes
- 6:9-10 Greek version reads And he said, “Go and say to this people, / ‘When you hear what I say, you will not understand. / When you see what I do, you will not comprehend.’ / For the hearts of these people are hardened, / and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes— / so their eyes cannot see, / and their ears cannot hear, / and their hearts cannot understand, / and they cannot turn to me and let me heal them.” Compare Matt 13:14-15; Mark 4:12; Luke 8:10; Acts 28:26-27.
Isaiah 6:10
New International Version
Isaiah 6:10
New International Version
Footnotes
- Isaiah 6:10 Hebrew; Septuagint ‘You will be ever hearing, but never understanding; / you will be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ / 10 This people’s heart has become calloused; / they hardly hear with their ears, / and they have closed their eyes
Ezekiel 14:7-9
New Living Translation
Ezekiel 14:7-9
New Living Translation
7 I, the Lord, will answer all those, both Israelites and foreigners, who reject me and set up idols in their hearts and so fall into sin, and who then come to a prophet asking for my advice. 8 I will turn against such people and make a terrible example of them, eliminating them from among my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.
9 “‘And if a prophet is deceived into giving a message, it is because I, the Lord, have deceived that prophet. I will lift my fist against such prophets and cut them off from the community of Israel.
Read full chapter
Ezekiel 14:7-9
New International Version
Ezekiel 14:7-9
New International Version
7 “‘When any of the Israelites or any foreigner(A) residing in Israel separate themselves from me and set up idols in their hearts and put a wicked stumbling block(B) before their faces and then go to a prophet to inquire(C) of me, I the Lord will answer them myself. 8 I will set my face against(D) them and make them an example(E) and a byword.(F) I will remove them from my people. Then you will know that I am the Lord.(G)
9 “‘And if the prophet(H) is enticed(I) to utter a prophecy, I the Lord have enticed that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand against him and destroy him from among my people Israel.(J)
Joshua 11:20
New Living Translation
Joshua 11:20
New Living Translation
20 For the Lord hardened their hearts and caused them to fight the Israelites. So they were completely destroyed without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
Read full chapter
Joshua 11:20
New International Version
Joshua 11:20
New International Version
20 For it was the Lord himself who hardened their hearts(A) to wage war against Israel, so that he might destroy them totally, exterminating them without mercy, as the Lord had commanded Moses.(B)
Deuteronomy 2:30
New Living Translation
Deuteronomy 2:30
New Living Translation
30 “But King Sihon of Heshbon refused to allow us to pass through, because the Lord your God made Sihon stubborn and defiant so he could help you defeat him, as he has now done.
Read full chapter
Deuteronomy 2:30
New International Version
Deuteronomy 2:30
New International Version
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through. For the Lord(A) your God had made his spirit stubborn(B) and his heart obstinate(C) in order to give him into your hands,(D) as he has now done.
Isaiah 29:13
New Living Translation
Isaiah 29:13
New Living Translation
13 And so the Lord says,
“These people say they are mine.
They honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
And their worship of me
is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.[a]
Isaiah 29:13
New International Version
Isaiah 29:13
New International Version
13 The Lord says:
Footnotes
- Isaiah 29:13 Hebrew; Septuagint They worship me in vain; / their teachings are merely human rules
John 12:40
New Living Translation
John 12:40
New Living Translation
40 “The Lord has blinded their eyes
and hardened their hearts—
so that their eyes cannot see,
and their hearts cannot understand,
and they cannot turn to me
and have me heal them.”[a]
John 12:40
New International Version
John 12:40
New International Version
Psalm 90:13
New Living Translation
Psalm 90:13
New Living Translation
13 O Lord, come back to us!
How long will you delay?
Take pity on your servants!
Psalm 90:13
New International Version
Psalm 90:13
New International Version
Numbers 10:36
New Living Translation
Numbers 10:36
New Living Translation
36 And when the Ark was set down, he would say, “Return, O Lord, to the countless thousands of Israel!”
Read full chapter
Numbers 10:36
New International Version
Numbers 10:36
New International Version
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
New Living Translation
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
New Living Translation
11 So God will cause them to be greatly deceived, and they will believe these lies. 12 Then they will be condemned for enjoying evil rather than believing the truth.
Read full chapter
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
New International Version
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
New International Version
11 For this reason God sends them(A) a powerful delusion(B) so that they will believe the lie(C) 12 and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness.(D)
Romans 9:18-20
New Living Translation
Romans 9:18-20
New Living Translation
18 So you see, God chooses to show mercy to some, and he chooses to harden the hearts of others so they refuse to listen.
19 Well then, you might say, “Why does God blame people for not responding? Haven’t they simply done what he makes them do?”
20 No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?”
Read full chapter
Romans 9:18-20
New International Version
Romans 9:18-20
New International Version
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.(A)
19 One of you will say to me:(B) “Then why does God still blame us?(C) For who is able to resist his will?”(D) 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God?(E) “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it,(F) ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[a](G)
Footnotes
- Romans 9:20 Isaiah 29:16; 45:9
Zechariah 1:12
New Living Translation
Zechariah 1:12
New Living Translation
12 Upon hearing this, the angel of the Lord prayed this prayer: “O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, for seventy years now you have been angry with Jerusalem and the towns of Judah. How long until you again show mercy to them?”
Read full chapter
Zechariah 1:12
New International Version
Zechariah 1:12
New International Version
12 Then the angel of the Lord said, “Lord Almighty, how long(A) will you withhold mercy(B) from Jerusalem and from the towns of Judah,(C) which you have been angry with these seventy(D) years?”
Psalm 141:4
New Living Translation
Psalm 141:4
New Living Translation
4 Don’t let me drift toward evil
or take part in acts of wickedness.
Don’t let me share in the delicacies
of those who do wrong.
Psalm 141:4
New International Version
Psalm 141:4
New International Version
New Living Translation (NLT)
Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.
New International Version (NIV) 
Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.